The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromθρόμβος“lump, piece, blood clot, milk curd”
- New Latin · borrowed fromthrombus
- English todaythrombus
Borrowed from New Latin thrombus, from the Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos, “lump, piece, blood clot, milk curd”); compare thrombo-.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekθρόμβος all →
thrombopoietinthrombo-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.